Bangladeshi cricketers have been improving their fitness level significantly as they prepare for the forthcoming international assignments, said team officials on Wednesday.
\nTigers went through a one-and-half-month long fitness camp which was coupled with skill camp during the last three weeks in order to get them prepared ahead of home series against Afghanistan and England.
\nOn average, each individual covered the distance of 2100 metres during their Wednesday\u2019s rigorous fitness test that came as an indication of their level of endurance.
\nThe last day\u2019s drills were divided into four categories that began with the skin fold test followed by the movement competency test and jumping test
\nThe fitness test was concluded with the beep test.
\nCricketers faced those tests on Wednesday at Mirpur Indoor Stadium and showed marked improvement from where they began July 20.
\nIftekharul Islam, who started the test before he was joined by Sri Lankan Mario Villavarayen, looked optimistic with the outcome.
\n\u2018They had improved at least 25 per cent from where they had begun,\u2019 Iftekhar told New Age on Wednesday.
\n\u2018The coach is happy with the outcome that I believe is the outcome of their hard work,\u2019 he said.
\nAccording to statistics, members of the 30-member preliminary squad on an average scored 10.8 points during their opening fitness test while they earned approximately 11.5 points on an average on Wednesday.
\nTiger\u2019s Sri Lankan trainer Villavarayan was also impressed with the performance of the cricketers and said they are expected to reap the benefit as they did in the previous season.
\n\u2018I am happy with today\u2019s outcome as they did well and met my expectations,\u2019 said Villavarayan.
\n\u2018We had a similar programme last season and it served us well as we turned out to be quite a fit unit afterwards,\u2019 said Villavarayan.
\nBangladesh\u2019s Test skipper Mushfiqur Rahim turned out to be the fittest cricketer as usual while improvement of leg-spinner Jubair Hossain was also remarkable.
\nThe fitness of Jubair came up under scanner after he fared quite badly during the initial fitness test while he looked to have pulled up his socks to avoid further embarrassment.
\nJubair\u2019s skin-fold mark was 91 during the opening test while he reduced it to 83 at present to show that he is getting fitter.
\nBatsman Nasir Hossain said that he is confident that they will be benefitted through the fitness camp as they have a tight international schedule ahead.
\n\u2018We won\u2019t have the chance to have such kind of a fitness camp in the next one and a half year because we have a lot of matches ahead,\u2019 said Nasir.
\n\u2018Chances of injury during the middle of tournaments would have increased if we could not complete such kind of a camp.
\n\u2018We were benefitted from this camp earlier as it reduced chances of our injury,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

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